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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Give The Amiga Some Credit Already!
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Date: 17 Jun 91 21:34:02 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.205807.13064@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>
>   My complaints with Commodore with respect to high-density floppy drives
>have to do with the stupid way Commodore got the drives to work on Amigas
>(slowing down the drive motor to allow the Paula chip to keep up?  Give
>me a break!), and the fact that they waited four years to do it.  
>
	The alternative is to make everyone buy an add-on card,
which limits A500 owners to a plug-in module on the side which of
course makes adding an HD much harder. That (and a few other
possibilities, all of which involved compromises) is the only way
to get it to work via the external disk-drive port.
	-- Ethan

"...Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, an animal so stupid that it
had been sacked from one of Will's own commercials for being incapable
of knowing which dog food it was supposed to prefer, despite the fact
that the meat in all the other bowls had engine oil poured all over it."